G/TBT/N/ECU/408/Rev.1  
6 November  2019 
(19-7493) Page: 1/4 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website: www.normalizacion.gob.ec  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP  (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : 95030010 : 
Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar toys ; dolls' carriages. 95030022 : Dolls, whether 
or not dres sed. 95030030 : Reduced -size ("scale") model assembly kits, whether or not 
working models. 95030040 : Puzzles. 905030091 : Electric trains, including tracks, signals 
and other accessories therefor. 95030092 : Constructional. 95030093 : Toys representing 
animals  or non -human creatures. 95030094 : Musical instruments. 95030095 : Put up in 
sets or assortments. 95030096 : Other, with an electric motor. 95030099 : Other. Other 
toys; reduced -size ("scale") models and similar recreational models, working or not ; 
puzzles of all kinds (HS 9503)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Primera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE I NEN 089  (1R) "Segur idad de 
los juguetes"  (Draft first revision (1R) of Ecuadorian Technical Regulation PRTE INEN No. 
089 "Toy safety") (12 pages, in Spanish)  G/TBT/N/ECU/408/Rev.1  
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  6. Description of content : The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the 
requirements to be met by to ys, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported 
products, with the aim of protecting human health and safety and preventing deceptive 
practices.  
It applies to the following products : toys intended for use by children under 14 years of 
age. 
It does not apply to:  
• Home and public playground equipment;  
• Automatic playing machines, whether coin -operated or not, intended for public 
use; 
• Toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines;  
• Toy steam engines;  
• Slings and catapults;  
• Decorative objects for festivities and celebrations;  
• Products for collectors, provided that the product or its packaging bears a visible 
and legible indication that it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and 
above;  
• Sports equipment including roller skates, inline skate s, and skateboards 
intended for children with a body mass of more than 20 kg;  
• Bicycles with a maximum saddle height of more than 435 mm, measured as the 
vertical distance from the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in 
a horizontal positio n and with the seatpost set to the minimum insertion mark;  
• Scooters and other means of transport designed for sport or which are intended 
to be used for travel on public roads or public pathways;  
• Electrically driven vehicles which are intended to be used f or travel on public 
roads, public pathways, or the pavement thereof;  
• Aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water, and swimming learning 
devices for children, such as swim seats and swimming aids;  
• Puzzles with more than 500 pieces;  
• Guns and pistols using compressed gas, with the exception of water guns and 
water pistols;  
• Bows for archery over 120 cm long;  
• Fireworks, including percussion caps which are not specifically designed for 
toys; 
• Products and games using sharp -pointed missiles, such as sets of darts with 
metallic points;  
• Functional educational products, such as electric ovens, irons or other functional 
products operated at a nominal voltage exceeding 24 V which are sold 
exclusively for teaching purposes under adult supervision;  
• Products intended for use for educational purposes in schools and other 
pedagogical contexts under the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as 
science equipment;  
• Electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to 
access interactive sof tware and their associated peripherals, unless the 
electronic equipment or the associated peripherals are specifically designed for 
and targeted at children and have a play value on their own, such as specially 
designed personal computers, key boards, joy sticks or steering wheels;  G/TBT/N/ECU/408/Rev.1  
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  • Interactive software, intended for leisure and entertainment, such as computer 
games, and their storage media, such as CDs;  
• Babies' soothers;  
• Child-appealing luminaires;  
• Electrical transformers for toys;  
• Fashion accessories for c hildren which are not for use in play;  
• Personal protective equipment, including flotation aids such as arm bands and 
swim seats, and swimming goggles, sunglasses and other eye protectors as well 
as bicycle and skateboard helmets;  
• Sporting goods and equipment, camping goods, athletic equipment, musical 
instruments and furniture ; however, toys which are their counterparts are 
included;  
• Toys installed in public places (e.g. arcades and shopping centres);  
• Fashion jewellery for children.  
• This Ecuadorian T echnical Regulation does not cover electrical safety aspects of 
toys. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection ; Protect ion of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents : Normative references:  
• ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by 
attributes - Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) 
for lot -by-lot inspection;  
• ISO 8124 -1:2018, Safety of toys - Part 1 : Safety aspects related to mechanical 
and physical properties;  
• ISO 8124 -2:2014, Safety of toys - Part 2 : Flammability;  
• ISO 8124 -3:2010+Amd 2:2018, Safety of toys - Part 3 : Migration of certain 
elements;  
• ISO/IEC 17025 :2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories;  
• ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements;  
• ISO/IEC 17067 :2013, Conformity  assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certification schemes;  
• EN 71 -1:2014+A1:2018, Safety of toys - Part 1 : Mechanical and physical 
properties;  
• EN 71 -2:2011+A1:2014, Safety of toys . Flammability;  
• EN 71 -3:2013+A3:201 8, Safety of toys - Part 3 : Migration of certain elements;  
• EN 71 -4:2013, Safety of toys . Experimental sets for chemistry and related 
activities;  
• EN 71 -5:2015, Safety of toys - Part 5 : Chemical toys (sets) other than 
experimental sets;  
• ASTM F963 -17:2017, St andard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety.  
Notification history:  
• G/TBT/N/ECU/408  G/TBT/N/ECU/408/Rev.1  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : 30 days from notification or thereafter  
Proposed date of entry into force : 6 months from the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 30 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 394 8760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
www.normalizacion.gob.ec  
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